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Hurry down to your local Lidl

They are doing telescopic tree pruners at £5.99 and 360 litre composters at 13.99....

The spear and jackson version is £24.99 and the 300 litre composter is £24.99 at Homebase.

You could save £30 by shopping at Lidl......


( Im not employed by Lidl but I find their stuff so good)

Strawberry plants 6 for £3.49.....

They are even doing netting and seed bed covers....

I got my wellies in there last year and they are still going strong.
The srawbs in the one near me,looked a bit manky though,so I gave them a miss.
Ours also have the big tunnel/plastic greenhouse whatsits(about 6' X 4'),not sure how tall they were.

How did we manage in the pre-Lidl times?

I must admit, I bought a rose trellis kind of thing there a few weeks ago... For my climbing squash. IF they do me the favour and germinate before next winter!

And let's not forget ALDI for Fruit trees and bushes.
It's a bit late to be telling you good folks now,but in the early spring,they were selling a wide variety of Apple,Plum,Cherry,Nectarine and Apricot trees for the amazing price of £3.99(!)
Loads of people on our allotment site (including me)bought them,and we're all very pleased with our purchases.

In the same vein both Poundstretcher and Wilkinsons have big gardening departments and are very good value for money - we also did really well on bird feeding equipment in Poundstretcher last week. Sue

Hey what's the matter? So in the UK you get the same stuff in the same stores as we have in Germany? funny thing!
If I knew I needed something for gardening in the next season when I was still planting in the woods, I wrote it down and in march or april they would have it in Aldi or LIDL... Like secateurs, gloves, hoes... cheap, and quality is OK. How do you call that thing which has four "claws" at its end; you put these in the ground and twist it? I got a double package at LIDL, with a small handy one and a big one you use while standing, for 7 € I think.

Well, don't buy just because it's cheap, huh? Also you kill the small specialised shops with skilled personal when you get everything at the discounters... In a test they found out that LIDL has one of the worst vegetable quality of all german supermarkets. Aldi has about the best quality (which doesn't mean you can't get any better ). But a friend told me his Aldi tomatoe seeds grew up to produce tomatoes without taste.
Also the beer in Aldi is worse than in LIDL, same for the fruit juice!

Yes, thanks to Lidl we can all eat the same stuff all over Europe, and use the same gardening equipment...

Don't know whether that's a good thing. Or rather, I do know that that is not really a good thing!

However, I admit to buying the occasional packet of German rye bread; the sesame crisp bread is very nice, too; some cheeses... and beer and wine, of course... and catfood... and loo paper. Oooops, sounds more than it really is. Christmas is the worst time - they have all those German biscuits etc that you can't get anywhere else, and that really "make" Christmas in Germany - very difficult to resist!

The fruit and veg is actually quite good here, and much cheaper than in other supermarkets. I don't buy it very often (far too much stuff is imported, things that grow here perfectly well), but have sometimes been able to get European apples there when everybody else just had apples from Chile, NZ, USA or Argentine!

I think the best public service Lidl's have contributed is the multi-lingual labels on everything. You have to fight your way through about 10 different languages until you find one you understand - this might actually get people to learn some foreign words! Everybody here should know what Apfelsaft means in English, at least...

Lidl redeems itself at Xmas with spiced chocolate-coated almonds

Hedgie- you're back.....Hurrah and hello- hope everythings fine at the wizard homestead!

kind thoughts
Deb

I'm only semi-back I'm afraid... on internet at home again on dial-up but no office yet so sitting on a box. But we're getting there... we have floors and a shower and some paint!

Oh Glennie, it's official (on radio 4 this morning). The egg came first, since chickens logically evolved from something else that also laid eggs - so the first chicken came out of an egg laid by something that wasn't strictly speaking a chicken. So there!

hedgewizard wrote: we have floors and a shower and some paint!

Oh Glennie, it's official (on radio 4 this morning). The egg came first,

I do hope you have a roof over your head, too - what with all this water that's coming down at the moment...

Anyway - when did you hear that on the radio? I was listening from 5 til 8 or so, and I missed it!

'twas 8.40 ish because i was just pulling up for work. late as usual!

Well, last year I bought one of those mini polytunnel thingys but it took OH a year to get his finger out of his ear and to listen to my pleas to put this thing together. He cursed and cursed, and I should really have listened to him, as the night we put it up, it blew down. We have now relocated it and it is helping some of my veg plants to grow, so no complaints except it will have to come down for the winter, and I am praying the slugs don't notice that it is open at the bottom of the sheeting all the way along the sides . . . It's about 5'4" high (too old to work in metric I'm afraid) so I just squeeze in. I wouldn't buy it again I don't think, for all it is being useful right now.

lilds is great.

i work next to lidls, and always keep an eye out for the weekly specials.

bought a great japanese hand saw, a pruning knife, some waders!! a bread making machine, a hydration pack (for walking / cycling) no name but a few things!!! can't go wrong.

ina wrote:Yes, thanks to Lidl we can all eat the same stuff all over Europe, and use the same gardening equipment...

I wish we could, they don't sell Branston pickle or Heinz beans in Lidl in France! Or any British type food stuffs either.

Anyway hubby is happy cos he got a fishing umbrella from one in England. They don't sell them in France either! Lord knows what he wants it for, it isn't for sheltering from the rain. Must be a sun shade.